Josh could build a small 2-story house using Sovtek amps as bricks

@michaeldoerksen2841

Жыл бұрын

And when showing off his house he'd still avoid talking about them 😆😆😆

@mykhedelic6471

Жыл бұрын

The house that SOVTEK built. That and some glass block.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

yes

@bri-fihacksaw7215

Жыл бұрын

They did an entire episode in Sovtek amps?

@TheRealcdawg22

Жыл бұрын

...with BOSS compact series shingles.

As soon as Nick maxed out the settings on the soft focus and played a chord I went to sweetwater and bought one 😂

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

💪🏼

this show makes me want to have every pedal in the world

@Eliphas_Elric

Жыл бұрын

This is why I had to stop regularly watching lol. Spent WAAAY too much money on pedals.

@titussardonicus338

Жыл бұрын

You're too late. Josh already has them.

I was surprised that Josh didn't review the slicer as soon as it came out. When some of the more obscure pedals come out its almost like they're too mysterious to fully understand until Josh has explained it in his own words lol.

Glad to have you guys back! Drillers bass sounds awesome.

@-jank-willson

Жыл бұрын

Where tf is Josh

I'm really glad that you guys got my "Silky Johnson hate mail" 😀 I hope you enjoyed it, love you guys 😀

the soft focus is my favorite reverb pedal i’ve ever had! it’s epic even with the mod and symph down for a more basic reverb too

The harmony on that stinger is freaking amazing! ❤

"Duty" is short for duty cycle, as Ran Zer noted in chat. Duty cycle is the ratio an intermittent system (such as the slicer or tremolo or transistor or pulsed radar or PWM signal, etc) is on versus the time it is off.

Candy!!!! Glad to see your impressions of boss slicer

I had a Yamaha FX500 back in the early nineties: that patch was one of the too few highlights. And even in bypass it would lop about 10db off your signal. After a year or so of frustration and the impression that someone had thrown a moving blanket over my amp, I unloaded it and went back to analog pedals.

@hoover728

Жыл бұрын

'With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly tone-sucking bypass signal.'

Boss Slicer is one of the most underrated pedal of all time. It have sooo much potential to be a classic but no one use it the way it needed to be used

@SeattleGenXDude

5 ай бұрын

Needs to be used in stereo to even understand it

@StuffnSuch

2 ай бұрын

What way does it need to be used?

I love the 3 series reverb, it’s a fantastic pedal. I did not love the 3 series OD until I depowered by 3 volts via my MXR isobrick now it’s on a lot of the time!

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

woah, nice!

Killer jam on that Catalinbread SFX. They really nailed that unit I want one so bad.

Everytime I purchase a used pedal now and they have the box I can't help but sing the "he has the box" tune hahaha

@joermnyc

Жыл бұрын

Was going through some gear I don’t use to sell on Reverb, sadly no box. But I did find the boxes for other gear I have that I didn’t remember keeping the box/getting with a box. So I went, “He has the box.”

@mattymoyouknow202

Жыл бұрын

Next you have to buy the shirt

that first jam with the SoftFocus was everything. x

nice see catalinbread getting some love :)

Nick is my style guru. Nice chord progressions today!

I used the Soft Focus pedal on the song TROUBLE by Coldplay. It really sounds beautiful! Yesterday I ordered the Cloudburst pedal from Sweetwater. I should have it tomorrow. I'm so excited!

Not to take away from the awesome jams, and awesome pedals, and overall great production of the folks featured, but damn that 3 series phaser is hard to turn off. Any song I make or play eventually just gets phaser added to it and I’m glad Nick brought it out for the last jam. It’s so well voiced and just checks all the boxes for phaser

Dug out my FX500 from the 90s, new power supply, still works! Including my presets which I thought needed the button battery (which would have died many years ago...). The new pedal sounds very close, with a lot more easily accessible controls (no obscure menus).

The CB Soft Focus maxed out sounds very Cocteau Twins

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Ugh. They're so good.

I get pretty much the same sound out of my Wonderland Ambient Reverb and the Marianna modulated reverbs

Super surprised you just discovered the Soft Focus! Wait till you get to Many Worlds!

LOVE Nick's sweater 😍

@bud9269

Жыл бұрын

Hat ain't bad either. And it just matched the tele sooooo nice. Looking so slick I think he should of been the thumbnail

Good to see them working together with less friction.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry. Nick will annoy me soon enough and the old feud will return.

yeah I had to get that slicer - seemed like a good tool for the studio. Got it for what - a month? Wish I had one in early 2000s though would have been perfect for what I was doing. For now I use it as a fancy tremolo but the fun has barely begun.

Nice to see Driller inducted into the JHS house band.

That Slicer jam was way dope.

We need a JHS 3 series Jam Pal now.

Soft focus belongs before dirt and drive buds

@SnaFOo75

Жыл бұрын

yep!

Do a Catalinbread episode, I had a bunch of their pedals on my board for years! Still have the Dirty Little Secret (3 knobs and a tone switch version). And I have their Echorec for my bass board.

I hear sorta augmented like an original I do...and an ad before the same. woke up groggy bizarre. I just got a belle echo and I need an A B Y pedal you guys recommend yours? I had a space echo stereo...this is weird your sound is my song on Piano and midi are you spies stealing my best stuff? Just curious asking for a friend

The SL2 is excellent if you use it with a signal blender to run the main signal parallel.

There's a Slicer on the old Boss GT8 but it isn't nearly as musical. The SL2 sounds amazing

I’d love to hear that Boss Slicer on drums!!

That last jam just needed lyrics . . . total vibe.

That reverb sounds REALLY good into that kemper!! 😂

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

🤖

For once i bought a pedal before JHS gave me the GAS for it. Slicer has been very fun to mess with

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

well done!

Slicer rocks! I have it! 😜❤❤❤

That Jam 21:10 sounds like; build to spill - Carry the zero.

Slicer sounds like the intro to Camera Eye off Moving Pictures

That tone in the intro was Maximum Rock, Nick

The SL-2 is dope af. I could just let audacity record for hours while I mess around with it and have a dozen legit song ideas. If you ever experience creative block just start experimenting with it. It lends itself to out-of-the-box ideas and techniques. I had a defective fuzz pedal that I ran into a Boss GT-1 multi effects on a harmonist patch with the expression pedal bending pitch up an octave then into the slicer. Instant inspiration. There are also downloadable patches in addition to the stock ones. I think there are somewhere in the range of 8 expansion packs. I'd highly recommend it for anyone who makes electronic music and also plays guitar because you can make a lot of unguitarlike, synthesizerish tones.

The Boss It’s a gater. And it works wonders on synthesizers.

Nice video, nice sweater. Where did you get the super cool sweater?

Finally, after 24 years, I found out what effect John Frusciante uses at the end of Throw away your television!!!

Nick: makes his guitar sound like economy 80s pads Addison: i will literally say anything sounds great

If yer gonna do the Slicer, ya gotta do the DigiTech Time Bender! Underrated and still so cool!

Watching this made me realize that it’s not Catalinabread but Catalinbread. My mind’s not exactly blown but it is weird I never noticed that.

Almost positive Richard Buckner used the original Slicer on an album & I've wondered for years what it was. Has to be it.

Love my SL-20 ... Better get me the SL-2 as well !!

I’m looking for the OG SL-20 for my BigBoard build.

@guygraham2580

Жыл бұрын

The new one adds some valuable extra functionality, plus the single pedal size lets you either keep things compact, or add 1 or 2 extra expression and/or tap tempo switches in a more convenient place on your pedalboard - including using Gigrig type switcher, which can also be used with other pedals as a (admittedly not cheap) compact pedalboard control solution...including sending TRS MIDI to the SL-2, which really makes the pedal in relation to the way I prefer to use it. The MIDI implementation is basic, but incredibly useful when clocked from a synth running a sequence based on the drum/rhythm tempo + other control functions.

Souvlaki was released in 1993 in UK I believe….though feels like it should be earlier. I’d guess that band were using that sound already though prior to the album release (possibly as early as 1990?). Would love to see some more Catalinbread pedals reviewed. Maybe some of the less well known ones, as many seem to know the Belle Epoch and Dirty Little Secret.

There you go - maybe an antique finish?

Yay Gloria chords!

I still think - they haven’t quite got the true Yamaha Fx 500 soft focus patch quite right. It seems to lack the depth or something. I found the Loomer pedal the same

The Slicer would be a great tool for song writing if you’re stuck in your same old rhythmic patterns.

@bloodromance4776

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it makes a really boring music sound unique

Who does the sound mixing on the jams?

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Mostly Addison!

That is one he ** of a jam guys I wasn't sure how the second pedal would be applied ... but it was killer

Guys... Stop trying to pretend that Josh hasn't moved to Japan to work for Boss. It's ok. We love you anyway. I hope this helps.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

😶

I wonder how does the Waza tuner tune better than just regular Boss tuner …or just literally any tuner.

@bud9269

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't? But it has an improved buffer... or so the legend goes

@SignificanceOfThePassageOfTime

Жыл бұрын

You can also use it to power other boss pedals, if thats your thing.

@ramooninthemoon

Жыл бұрын

@@bud9269I thought it was true bypass lol

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

it doesn't, but our regular Boss tuner pooped out on us just before the show, lol.

@TheRealcdawg22

Жыл бұрын

​@Ramoon CG I think it is selectable, true bypass or buffered. It might have increased tuning sensitivity, I don't know..

I always miss the live streams somehow. That's a pretty cool dynamic with those three on instruments. You guys should incorporate Driller more often. Maybe two guitars or two basses? I would say get everyone involved, but I have a feeling all 40 employees at JHS are multi-instrumentalists.

I can only say nick is a great drummer

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Truly

There's hardly anything else (except Pray) I would rather be doing than watching Nick and crew at 'JHS Pedals' opening Sweetwater packages with a Hari Kari blade just before WW3.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

🙏🏼

Greaaaaat!

Guitar sounds a little soft in the jams, but great stuff as usual, gents!

Josh is in the thumbnail but I see no Josh on the video?

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

😈

@nickp440

Жыл бұрын

we got bamboozled

I think a sliced bread joke was missed by the team.

Thank you Sweetwater 🎉❤😊 Also, tiny knife users of the world, UNITE!!

Wo. That shoe gazy AF

you need to co ver the whole catalinbread range - very original idea pedals

Is it a Marshall bluesbreaker reissue that Marshall are denying but Thoman are sending orders out?

I want to hear the Catilinbread with the Slicer.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

go to the end!

Why isn’t there more apparel with swans on it? Or even Canadian geese? My mother would love that.

Next time I go to the barber for a haircut, I'm going to ask him to give me a "trimlow".

FWIW, I believe Miki Berenyi of Lush had an all Boss pedal board back in the day.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Boss is best!

@iandmasterson5360

Жыл бұрын

Emma had a GP-16 rack unit that was forever breaking down.

The last Is thing I need is another guitar pedal, But d*** I sure want a slicer.

@guygraham2580

Жыл бұрын

If you can't bring yerself to even type out the most milquetoast of curse words, I doubt you'll ever get anywhere close to exploring the more jarringly choppy and extreme sounds from the SL-2 Slicer!

Soft Focus is an always on pedal.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Yes

MORE DRILLER!

Play “Life in a Northern Town” by Dream Academy. That first pedal is perfect for it. Or some Prefab Sprout.

The sound of the slicer is so 2000s to me.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

in a good way, right?

@wilaustu

Жыл бұрын

@@jhspedals Of course!

Anyone else getting the “wife who doesn’t want to be here” vibes from Josh the secretary? No?..it’s just me?

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Wait... lol.

@guygraham2580

Жыл бұрын

I get the distinct vibe he's just sitting behind that laptop, quietly wondering how someone with such high educational achievements ended up answering emails from dumb guitar players? Joshua should move up north, preferably inside the Acela corridor - from whence the deep state elite is basically running the world, and getting paid handsomely for it! PS don't tell him about the cost of living, he may decide to stay put ;-)

15:28 Getting down with the sickness

This probably has been asked in the past (I’m late to the game)haha… what brand is your t-style guitar and what pickups are in it? That guitar sounds so good. Thank you.

@PAHVID

Жыл бұрын

It’s a KC made Seüf OH-20. They wind their own pickups but not sure if that’s what he has in there.

@jbert6793

Жыл бұрын

@@PAHVID thank you

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

We used the Seüf Jazzmaster and Seüf Telecaster!

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

Pickups are Fralins!

@jbert6793

Жыл бұрын

@@jhspedals killer tones. Thank you for all you do for the guitar community.

What kinds of shoes are appropriate for shoegaze? I would imagine that the kind of shoes worn might have a subtle affect on tone.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

i'm wearing luggz

@guygraham2580

Жыл бұрын

Doc Martens or chunky boots from the Army Surplus...basically part of the uniform back then, plus much cheaper and sturdier than the nicest sneakers of the era!

Josh in the thumbnail pic for super effective clic-bait effect! 😂

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

We changed it! lol, cause like, you're right.

@nachobassman

Жыл бұрын

LOL… It wasn’t my intention, tho. 😅

👑Josh stepping away from the camera as often as he had been?

Save every box forever

Does this mean Catalinbread are going to do a range of pedals based on late 80s, early 90s rack unit patches? Next one best be a Alesis Quadraverb Chorusstrings pedal. Instant Verve/Nick McCabe for A Storm in Heaven sounds. Or a Quadraverb Taj Mahal patch pedal for Jeff Buckley.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

🤷🏻‍♂️

@iandmasterson5360

Жыл бұрын

@@jhspedals You should do an episode on those old rack units. Midiverbs, Quadraverbs, Fx500, SPX90, GP8.

if it's available currently at sweetwater, we all already know about it.

Driller’s bass lines tho.

🤘 🤘

I love tiny knife. tiny knife is my friend

You just sold me the Boss Slicer.

@jhspedals

7 ай бұрын

yes!

THE Mike Jones?

21:00 pre chorus of wrecking ball. “Don’t you ever say…” Miley Cyrus

Pencils: silicon vs germanium?

FRIST impressions > FIRST impressions. Prove me wrong.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was SAYING! But someone got on and changed it.

I love how the pick a number.....people start spamming numbers like freakin crazy before you even get the number and the whole stream is spammed numbers like crazy for several minutes. even 5 mins later theres still numbers going.